Author: Magic Numbers

Format: Enhanced

Release Date: 24-11-2005

Details: Product description Debut 2005 album from joyous UK popsters: like The Mamas & The Papas meet Beck! Includes "Forever Lost". Amazon.ca In an age of aggressively marketed fashion-obsessed mannequins, the Trinidad/New York/London collective The Magic Numbers is an anomaly; a word-of-mouth phenomenon whose affable live shows have been compared to happy-clappy religious experiences and whose music—an unfashionable blend of soft country pop with Fifties and Sixties inflections—is evidently more important to them than the intercession of style gurus and hairdressers. The "kids" have been converted, and the band's self-titled debut album may prove to be the most surprising success story of the year. Comprising two pairs of siblings, the Stodarts (singer and songwriter Romeo; the girth of a bear, the hair and beard of a friendly fairy-tale giant and the voice of a mouse; sister Michelle on bass, keyboards, vocals) and the Gannons (the equally hirsute Sean on drums; sister Angela on vocals, melodica, and percussion), the familial ties shine through in the wholesome, harmonious nature of it all, from the skiffle of "Long Legs" and the upbeat, Undertones-flavored pop of "Love Me Like You" to the melting, dreamy teen-frustration dialogues of "Love's a Game" and "I See You, You See Me." The Magic Numbers offer conclusive proof that math isn't boring. --Kevin Maidment

UPC: 094633057425

EAN: 0094633057425

Languages: English

Binding: Audio CD

Item Condition: New